Naître femme dans la société tunisienne : le rite du « tasfih »
In Tunisia, to preserve their virginity, some young girls are subjected from childhood to “tasfih,” a magico-religious practice aimed at making them inviolable by preventing any sexual penetration before marriage, whether consensual or forced. This article presents a clinical vignette analyzing the...
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| Aineistotyyppi: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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2025
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| Linkit: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Yhteenveto: | In Tunisia, to preserve their virginity, some young girls are subjected from childhood to “tasfih,” a magico-religious practice aimed at making them inviolable by preventing any sexual penetration before marriage, whether consensual or forced. This article presents a clinical vignette analyzing the case of “Meriem,” a young single mother, within the framework of clinical research we conducted on the suffering of single mothers in Tunisia, resulting from social and familial rejection related to their out-of-wedlock pregnancies. The data were collected through semi-structured clinical interviews. Meriem’s case highlights the cultural and social complexity of the female condition in Tunisian and Maghrebi society, as well as the “obsession” of some traditional Tunisian families with preserving their daughters’ virginity until marriage, to the point of “controlling” their bodies through “tasfih.” |
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